Thanks for the detailed reply Mike. It clears up questions on the panel operation. Especially why there are ten positions of the throttle. I'm going to use throttle stop as one of the E-stops. Idle will be notch one and nine will be warp drive engagement...... Here's a sideview of my FrankenCritter....

Mike, Question on the operation of the EMD panel. When the throttle is in notch one you can pull it out and go one lower into what I believe is the engine off/shutdown position. If that assumption is correct, is it normal that you have to go back to notch one to be able to remove the reverser lever?...

After conversations with Dimension I have found that the Sabertooth 2x60 does not support analog option 3 like their other controls. This poses some problems for what I want to do, especially the lack of a one direction throttle and the ability to seperately choose forward or reverse. Using an Ardui...

Mike,
Looks good and should work as you want. Another thing to consider. If you want to safely freewheel the loco with the controller not powered up you can place a diode across the controller power switch to sink the regen power to the battery to prevent controller damage.

CP, I don't think you can fry one of these miswiring the controller inputs. Hopefully no metal chips floating about from drilling.... Split sec oops on battery polarity is typical poof. Wire hairs crossing lugs.....
Where you running when it died?

You can use the same switch. Wiring may need to be changed. A signal on S1 of 0v corresponds to the motor being fully stopped. 5v corresponds to full power. A second signal is fed to S2. If the signal on S2 is greater than 2.5 volts, the SyRen will drive the motor forward. If the signal on S2 is les...

Mike, Do you have your controller dip switches set for option 3, analog one dir throt, for/rev S2 input? That uses Ov as motor stop. I would think this is fairly good failsafe. There is no mention of this option on my Sabretooth 2x60. I don't know if it is an omission or not supported. Bob

Do you know why your controller fried? They are very robust but will not tolerate the input voltage being reversed. Doing that is an instant death pop. Using analog control you cannot have a seperate switch to select forward or reverse. Direction and speed is done with a single potentiometer. Using ...